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Keep the Champagne!
Keep the Champagne! “If I did not know it before, I was destined to learn how necessary it was to have a great man at the head of a government, to serve people in…
Inspired for Battlefield Preservation: Lesser Known Stories of Battlefield Medicine
Inspired for Battlefield Preservation: Lesser Known Stories of Battlefield Medicine by Paul Scott with Sarah Kay Bierle Medical military service is part of my fam…
Emerging Civil War — March 2021
From the Editor I called to mind a plea for unity from President Lincoln. “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” Abraham Lincoln warned in a speech to his…
Civil War Alphabet Quiz – K as in...March
Union General who skedaddled in his nightshirt CS general shot down during Pickett’s charge This ship sank the CSS Alabama Inventor of the first division identifi…
Charles Dickens
“The Northern onslaught upon slavery is no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern States.” Charl…
Book Reviews — March 2021
Reconciliation and Reunion Patriot’s Twice, Former Confederates and the Building of America After the Civil War. By Stephen M. Hood. Illustrated, bibliography, ap…
Bacon Navy Revolvers – A Potential Success Scuttled by Smith & Wesson
Bacon Navy Revolvers – A Potential Success Scuttled by Smith & Wesson The story of the various gun companies that were established and run by Thomas K. Bacon is r…
American Digger’s Antique Military & Americana Show & Sale
MT. PLEASANT, S.C.—Jan. 2-3, 2021. How will the 2021 show season be in this new year of COVID and political upheaval? It will be very good, if the first show of t…
American Battlefield Trust — March 2021
A Year Like No Other Yields Landmark Accomplishments for the Trust Despite a year that will go down in history for its unprecedented challenges, the American Batt…
A Yankee Who Cheated Death
A Yankee Who Cheated Death by Joseph F. Wilson For many soldiers, a single musket ball crashing into their body would have caused extensive damage. A shot to the…
A Pop Quiz
A Pop Quiz I have written previously on Edward Porter Alexander and his two fine memoirs. The first one was published decades after the second one, but that story…
A Battle of Williamsburg Trophy
A Battle of Williamsburg Trophy by Shannon Pritchard Every soldier, North and South, needed a knife when they marched off to war and in the South it was fashionab…
Transcript of the Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 1863 By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thou…
The saga of the Third New Jersey Cavalry
cavalry, with yards of gold braid and orange piping and an odd hat choice, which appears to be a standard kepi with the bill removed and worn sideways. Enlistees…
The Tomb of Washington’s Mother & The Civil War
During 1862, some Civil War soldiers near Fredericksburg, Va., went out of their way to protect the grave and memorial of Mary Washington. They honored her as the…
The Revenge Raid on Lake Mattamuskeet
Following reassignment of most Federal occupation forces in North Carolina to join General George McClellan’s Peninsular Campaign in Virginia, effective Union con…
The Lincoln Archives Digital Project
Researchers will benefit from Lincoln as a President.” Given the vast sources available, now the magnitude of sources, rangand in the future, at The Lincoln ing f…
Remembrance Day at Gettysburg 2020 Observed by the General Meade Society
GETTYSBURG, Penn.—At the traditional Remembrance Day observance on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, the ceremony honoring the victorious commander of the Union Army of th…
Paper Cartridges for the .577 Enfield Rifle Musket in the Civil War
The only pattern of cartridge to be hereafter used with muzzle loading rifled small arms shall be that known as the English pattern of Enfield cartridge.” – Colon…
Monocacy National Battlefield’s New Superintendent
WASHINGTON, D.C.— National Park Service (NPS) acting Area Director Lisa Mendelson-Ielmini has named Andrew Banasik as the superintendent of Monocacy National Batt…
McDonald, Pennsylvania, Emancipation Day Celebration
In 1862, the Civil War was going badly for General George McClellan and the Army of the Potomac; President Lincoln was impatiently waiting for good news and a maj…
Marching through Georgia in the 21st Century
In September 1863 war came to Georgia in earnest when Federal and Confederate armies clashed at Chickamauga. The following year, Sherman’s armies campaigned to At…
Lincoln’s Home
The Graphic War highlights prints and printmakers from the Civil War discussing their meaning and the print maker or artist’s goals. Imagine today someone display…
Emerging Civil War — February 2021
From the Editor By the time you read this, you’ll know whether you ended up on Santa’s nice list or naughty list. If you scored a spot on the nice list, perhaps y…